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2nd Baltic Sea Cable Cut; Germany Suspects Sabotage
By Paul Homewood h/t George Herraghty Damage to two undersea fiber-optic communication cables in the Baltic Sea—one between Lithuania and Sweden, and the other between Finland and Germany—should...
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Ford to cut 800 UK jobs as electric car sales flag
By Paul Homewood Ford won’t be the last. Ford has announced it will cut 800 jobs in the UK over the next three years. The move is part of a major restructuring programme, which will see 4,000...
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Ed Miliband’s new heat pump plan could tip us into civil unrest
By Paul Homewood h/t Paul Kolk Nothing ever seems to deter Ed Miliband, the green commissar of this Labour government. He has already brought back the boiler tax, adding a few hundred pounds to...
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Ignore Elections, Say CCN
By Paul Homewood Democracy only matters to CCN when the vote goes their way! “Crushing.” “Decisive.” “Overwhelming.” Those are some of the adjectives news stories have used to describe...
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Think twice about using hot air blower during cold snap, electric drivers warned
By Paul Homewood h/t Paul Kolk Get your long johns out! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/21/think-twice-about-turning-on-hot-air-blower-electric-car/
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Miliband Reintroduces Hated Boiler Tax
By Paul Homewood Fury as Labour quietly reintroduces the ‘boiler tax’ – which has already cost households £100 – with Ed Miliband accused of trying to ‘force’ heat pumps on Brits by making gas...
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Low-Lying Bangladesh Growing in Size
By Paul Homewood A new study has analysed how rivers and the coast have changed over the years in Bangladesh: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s43217-024-00207-4.pdf There is a lot...
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Rachel’s Black Hole
By Paul Homewood Rachel from Accounts has apparently discovered a black hole! Well, Rachel, here are some suggestions to fill it! Shut down DESNZ – Saving £14.0bn (incl Capital Spend) – the Department...
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COP29 On Verge Of Collapse
By Paul Homewood The fun has started at COP29! For years successive COPs have papered over the cracks, but the cracks have now become unbridgeable chasms. The West wants the world to give up fossil...
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Northvolt Goes Bankrupt
By Paul Homewood h/t Paul Kolk Another one bites the dust! Swedish electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturer Northvolt filed for bankruptcy after the company’s dreadful liquidity position left...
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COP29 Leaves Poor Countries Fuming
By Paul Homewood So the whole charade trundles on for another year: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8jykpdgr08t So, poor nations, who demanded $1.3 trillion, were eventually forced to accept...
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Call A General Election–New Petition
By Paul Homewood For anybody has not seen this petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700143 I have never come across any petition that has got so many signatures, so quickly. It...
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High mileage electric car usage is working out almost twice as expensive as...
By Paul Homewood Not a happy chappy! Recently, a family illness was a force majeure and the Civic was being serviced so the Ford was the only transport. Unfortunately, no amount of planning could...
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Matt McGrath Still Does Not Get It!
By Paul Homewood h/t Paul Kolk The absurd Matt McGrath still does not get it! COP29 is over, with developing countries complaining that the $300bn (about £240bn) a year in climate finance they...
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Strom Bert
By Paul Homewood The media really has lost its collective mind over so-called “Storm Bert”. Even the normally level-headed Eamonn Holmes on GB News: He made a comment about COP29, noting that...
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ZEV Mandates Force Closure Of Vauxhall’s Luton Plant
By Paul Homewood Another casualty of Net Zero: Vauxhall is planning to shut its Luton van-making factory in a move that puts 1,100 jobs at risk, as net zero rules force it to curtail sales of...
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Labour has just revealed the full cost of net zero
By Paul Homewood h/t Paul Kolk Les jeux sont faits, Ed Miliband. The chips are down, the game is up. We knew Labour was no closer to solving the energy trilemma than scientists are to explaining...
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Labour poised to water down electric car rules amid crisis in industry
By Paul Homewood Kicking the can down the road is no solution, Mr Reynolds! Labour is poised to water down electric vehicle (EV) rules amid a mounting crisis in the industry over the pace of...
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IRENA’s Fake Wind Costs
By Paul Homewood https://www.irena.org/ The International Renewable Energy Agency, IRENA, makes no secret that its only objective is to promote renewable energy. It is an intergovernmental...
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